Dworshak Reservoir · Idaho

Dent Acres — how to get a site when it's sold out

Overview Located in northern Idaho's beautiful Clearwater Valley, Dent acres Campground on Dworshak Lake is surrounded by forests and abundant wildlife. Dworshak Lake is 54 miles long, hosts kokanee salmon, rainbow trout and small mouth bass fishing. It has excellent boating, water skiing and hunting opportunities.

🏕️ 52 sites 🚐 Standard, Group, Shelter

Booking Dent Acres

Sites at Dent Acres are reserved through Recreation.gov. Sites here can be reserved in advance through the official system, and they are claimed fast — cancellations then trickle back all season, unannounced, at any hour of the day or night.

Site facts

Total sites52
Site typesStandard, Group, Shelter
HookupsElectric hookups at some sites
LocationOrofino, ID
Book throughRecreation.gov
Official listingRecreation.gov

The cancellation play at Dent Acres

Because sites are booked months ahead, a steady share of reservations get cancelled as trips fall through. Each cancellation instantly returns that site and those nights to the official calendar — first-come, first-served, no waitlist, no announcement. Refreshing the booking page yourself, every few minutes for weeks, works in theory. In practice, the people who get these sites are the ones who hear about the opening first.

ItOpened scans the Recreation.gov calendar for Dent Acres around the clock. When a site matching your dates and your vehicle opens, you get a text with a direct link to it. You book it yourself, in your own account, at the normal price. We never book, hold, or resell — your fee pays for monitoring, and openings are first-come, so speed is the whole game.

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Page data refreshed 2026-10-29. Site facts come from the official directory listing for Dent Acres; cancellation statistics come from our own scanning logs.